New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times

Post by svnt » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 9:34 PM UTC

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Please remember that science is under attack in the United States - new proposals would gut the nih even beyond the horror that is ongoing. As a scientist I am horrified and I truly hope that we don’t abandon the usas historically strong investment in the future.

I've been wondering why they attack science outside of they think it is woke and liberal. It makes no sense to cut off the hand that saves you even as a rich billionaire who wants to control people in a fascist society.

Post by Vaslo » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

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>100% support (10s of millions of Americans do) many of these cuts when scientists are hired because they know someone, or are part of some “group” rather than being the best choice. Prove it. Prove this happens at a large scale. This is just nonsense talking points.

Post by TaupeRanger » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC

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Unfortunately, anecdotes are not data, and although a patient can try anything they want, there is no way to know that such dietary changes are beneficial or potentially harmful for most patients without doing a randomized controlled trial and hoping for strong adherence from the participants.

> anecdotes are not data It's 2026, this is SOP. It's why I referenced the metabolic pathways derived from data backed research, linked to a data driven study, and used language like "we had significant success with our loved one " and "if you want something that you can do to try ". Honestly this reads like an "aHCkTualLy!1!" from someone without experience of having a loved one suffering from a cancer diagnosis. Pe…

Post by basisword » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

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What does this mean in layman's terms? How will this potentially help me if I get cancer?

Cancer is not one thing, it's a huge zoo of many many many ways that cells start to break the social contract and divide in an uncontrolled manner. One of the most commonly observed broken mechanisms is mutation in the gene KRAS that turns this on/off growth switch into the permanently on position. This has been known for decades, of course. And there have been huge amounts of effort to try to develop drugs that targ…

Post by pancreaticdiet » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 11:15 PM UTC

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> anecdotes are not data It's 2026, this is SOP. It's why I referenced the metabolic pathways derived from data backed research, linked to a data driven study, and used language like "we had significant success with our loved one " and "if you want something that you can do to try ". Honestly this reads like an "aHCkTualLy!1!" from someone without experience of having a loved one suffering from a cancer diagnosis. Pe…

I appreciated your comment, and strongly believe that diet and lifestyle changes are badly ignored when it comes to treating all kinds of diseases, in large part because of the difficulty of getting people to follow through. To be fair, if you're a dementia or cancer patient, making intense lifestyle changes is much harder than pills or surgery. Anyway, my point is, don't worry too much about the ignorant " but actua…